Monday, June 25, 2012

The first thing that jumped out at me was the round pillow, so I made a layered flower in Aqua Mist patterned paper (and then later rejected the double layers). I added the lemon tart buttons to repeat the color, but am not sure if it made it too busy. It also turns out that there is a sketch challenge at The Paper Players that was similar to what I had in mind.

Sunday, June 17, 2012

As soon as I saw the colors for this week's challenge at Play Date Cafe, I thought bracelet. Living in Wisconsin I don't wear many bracelets in winter, since I am always in long sleeves. In summer most of my days off from work I do wear bracelets. I used a ladder stitch for the bracelet. Then since I already had the beads out, I made a matching anklet.

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Another Father's Day card for challenges this week at ColourQ and PaperPlay. I stole found this incredible deal on the Classic Convertible set by Stampin Up at a rummage sale. On eBay it is selling for $60.00, and I paid $8.00. And then of course because I had to use it right away, I drew a blank. So I cased this card, substituting the correct colors for the challenge.

The Challenge at PaperPlay ~

Week 24 - For a Man (with twine)

Our challenge this week is called "For a Man - with twine"
- it's almost Father's Day here in Ireland (and in the U.K., I think),
so you could do something for a Dad or Grandad - but anything for a guy
will do - but it must have twine on it somewhere.

A card for two challenges ending today. I definitely have had more ideas lately than time. I am making this card for a color challenge at Dynamic Duos and a sketch challenge at retro sketches. I am also entering the card into this week's 52 Card Pickup.

Saturday, June 9, 2012

Stocking up on my thank you cards after the end of the school year exhausted my supply. This card is for three challenges at Color Throwdown, CAS-ual Fridays, and Make it Monday for the sketch challenges. This is the third sketch I am using for the Make it Monday, the first two are here and here.

Nichole shared some insight into her design process and how she uses random bits of inspiration to create unique sketches
as a foundation for some of her projects.

Friday, June 8, 2012

One more card for this week's ColourQ challenge. I missed the last two weeks, so I figure can enter a second card ~ my first one is here. I like how the SU Summer Smooches DSP has both the Island Indigo and Tempting Turquoise in one design. I also used the sketch at Card Patterns and focused on polka dots, which is the current challenge at CAS-ual Fridays.

CFC56: Create a Clean And Simple project using polka dots.

Supplies ~

Stamp & Buttons ~ PTI

Paper ~ SU & PTI

Ink ~ SU

Dies ~ Sizzix SU

Twine ~ The Twinery

It's the first day of summer vacation, so I had a buddy to stamp with ~